Default lead owner

So I am sure this is simple but I'm newer to Hubspot and just not seeing it where I think it should be...

Our Hubspot was set up by my predecessor and every person who fills out a form ends up with that name as the lead owner. Not too bad but it gets annoying having to reassign every inbound contact.

Is there somewhere that this is set as a default and I can change it to myself or our sales manager as the contact owner automatically? I looked through the workflows and forms and did not see them explicitly listed in there. I know I can add the reassignment to the workflows but I think it would be easier to just change the default. Thanks in advance!

>>"it's populating from parts unknown so maybe just explicitly assign it in the workflow"?

Not recommended. Guessing like that just causes more problems than it solves, so ...

Again, please view the workflow membership for a specific CONTACT and find the correct workflow. You'll be glad you did.

Chances are, Contact Owner assignment has more to do with newly created contacts than any workflows around forms. Don't focus on which form they completed. Instead, focus on their status as a new or existing contact.

Salesforce connected account in the salesforce integration is where Hubspot was pulling the Contact Owner value from. My hubspot integration was still connected to my predecessor's salesforce account. Once I updated to use mine, contacts are coming in as "unassigned".

Seems glitchy that it would be doing it because of that, but now things are working as they should. Thanks a million, Frank for helping me to sniff this out!

In the future, be sure to mention that you're HubSpot instance is integrated with Salesforce. There are other members of the HubSpot Community with seriously powerful Salesforce kung fu and who can save you lots of time troubleshooting.

I'm going through the same thing. I'm a Salesforce user and on the Salesforce end I have configured a specific SDR to be the default owner, but HubSpot keeps assigning someone else, and I'm not sure why or how. There is no automated journey assigning the lead owner. Help!